You wanna get nuts? Lets get nuts!

"You wanna get nuts? Lets get nuts!"

This is one of my favourite quotes from arguably the best Batman movie among them all,

Because let’s face it, life and the world is a little strange right now, and in these moments it’s important that we are able to be ourselves as much as we can, we need that inner anchor.

This is definitely not a time to tiptoe around things nor is it a time to descend into egomaniacal indulgence.

We have to recognise that there are many of us on this earth who holds uniquely diverse properties and qualities, approaches, perspectives, backgrounds, influences, and ingredients to add into the melting pot of humanity.

We are in danger, intellectually speaking of regressing to a place where we don’t appreciate the nuances that we all bring to the table for the sake of conformity rallied round the temple of fear.

There is a model of decision-making called the black box model, where it says that it is easier and more comforting to cling to a familiar pillar even if the pillar is collapsing when surrounded with unfamiliarity.

In short, if it’s time for a resort to revolve, we can’t be hanging onto dear life to what we know, there’s nothing wrong with keeping tradition and ideas sacred, but it should be more from a perspective that they form the grounding of how we meet the unknown.

Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but from my understanding, no teachings ever encouraged anyone to be closed minded. I believe we are still encouraged to meet each other from a place of openness.

So we are at risk of closing ourselves off to potential points of evolution within the collective connected to our individual personal experiences.

The crux point now points to integration rather than separation, as someone who is mixed race and has experienced a variety of situations and interactions based on factors. I cannot control but are also who I am, it has presented many interesting questions along the way. Namely which cultural direction do I lean into personally to fit in and any time I tried that I felt alienated from myself, regardless that I identify as British, being born here and being half Scottish born in Scotland, living most of my life in England, these are fundamentals that don’t change.

So there is a sense of being aware that we are all carrying different types of individual, and community level cultural identity, but we also are looking at interfacing with collective points of identity. And the difference now seems to be that the collective points of identity have expanded, so we’re not just talking about regions of countries, we’re talking about the forging of planetary culture.

We are truly stepping into the unknown within the lineage of this civilisation.

So it’s up to us to make something happen, but we need to find different ways of relating to each other as well as celebrating different ways that we can relate to an express ourselves.

To me, the liminality, being in between two spaces, a connection to both, but not either completely while being anchored into the collective that is the crux of the mixed race experience. I only share this for context and connection, because we all have nuances to our being. We all have nuances to our identity.

These things need to be celebrated, but they are not usurping other cultures, it’s a question of evolution. A question that demands to be answered through our responses to it.

We’ve become so siloed in our lives after the lockdowns because all of us, looked for online communities of similar interest, some of them serve their purpose, kept as sane, others validated peoples anxiety, their fears, all of the most difficult things that they were feeling and worrying about at the times try make sense of an unfamiliar situation.

We are now left in such a divisive landscape because people are unwilling to talk to each other as the things that have cut them off from each other ultimately hold power in emotion.

Emotion always stand above cognitive every time. It is instinct it is pretty hard to argue with instinct.

Instinct is compelling, it doesn’t even need to persuade you, it has the ability to drive you to do things that you thought you may never do.

Sometimes instinct can drive us to reach for the seemingly unobtainable goal, roll the dice, take a leap in our lives, do something a bit different to move the needle.

Unfortunately, other times, instinct can compel us through our deepest and most primal instincts, to do things before we even have a chance to think about them.

It is my position that a lot of what we are experiencing in the world right now is a result of mass abuse towards populations, people being driven by their emotions on an unconscious level doing what they believe to be the right thing and not realising the effect of their actions, because when acting on instinct, the sense is primal, you are protecting yourself, so it’s not even up for a debate.

We need to find a way individually through the work we do on ourselves and then ultimately collectively by connecting with each other and resonating in the communities that we are parts of to use this to our advantages as a society.

When we realise openly that there is more connects us than divides us, we can potentially do many great things.

However, to hold such a view would be idealistic to a point of blindness, which to my detriment is something I’ve refuse to let go of all of the years and has been something of a Northstar for me on my personal journey and search.

There is a quote that says to change the world first we must change the people, and I believe that because within the context of this, the only way for us to enact that change is to do the work on ourselves and change within ourselves.

But the issue when approaching the question of change within the journey of the human experience, as we have been encouraged to view the world and the human as if it were a machine, with the mind separate from the body.

Rather than recognising that we live in this while very well known to science in some aspects, utterly mysterious in others organic technology that we call the human body, we can see things more of an evolution.

When we think of life, society and the world in a hierarchical structure, rather than a regenerative ecosystem, we encourage a sense of separation within our own thinking towards ourselves.

When we take a view that everything is connected, a sense of being part of the great tapestry forever woven on that timeless loom of creation, it affords a certain license to experiment.

If things are going in a certain direction, we’re not happy with, to some degree we’ve become passengers in life, is everything, everyone, every life is connected, every decision we make has some kind of to play with something else that ultimately goes around the great circle back to where it came from in some former another.

Not in a misguided concept of the cosmic scales as karma, or the imaginary rule of 3, but more about a rhythm, symphony, things coming together in such a way to tell a much bigger story.

We owe it to ourselves to be part of that story as we can relate to it, we’re not all going to relate to it in the same way, but that we engage with it is the important thing.

To bring it further down from the abstract, the messages get creative, get expressive, find the things in the way that you want to express yourself, the things that you naturally drawn to.

It’s not about it being good or bad, don’t apply the terms of saleable product to the process of your creativity.

It doesn’t have to be monetised, it just needs to exist as a channel of your expression. What you decide to do with it from there is your business.

The important thing is that you do, because you never know that might create a big change in this world and if everyone is on that trip, get those ripples going, create some movement, who knows what could happen.

Most likely something good.

Peace out.